On 08/04/20 11:12, Ying Fang wrote: > On 2020/4/7 22:07, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> ARM machines and other weakly-ordered architectures have been suffering >> for a long time from hangs in qemu-img and qemu-io. For QEMU binaries >> these are mitigated by the timers that sooner or later fire in the main >> loop, but these will not happen for the tools and probably not with I/O >> threads either. > > yes, we occasionally see qemu main thread hangs and VM stuck in in-shutdown > state on aarch64 platform. So this could happen with I/O threads.
Thanks for confirming! Have you managed to test the final version of the patches? It would be great to include test results. Paolo